Tenuis palatal click

{{Short description|Consonantal sound}}

{{Infobox IPA

|above={{nowrap|Tenuis palatal velar click}}

|ipa symbol=k͡ǂ   k͡𝼋

|ipa symbol2=ᵏǂ   ᵏ𝼋

|ipa symbol3=ǂ   𝼋

|ipa number=179

|decimal=450

|braille=and|braille2=156

|kirshenbaum=c!Kirshenbaum assigns {{angbr|c!}} indifferently to both palatal and alveolar clicks.

}}

{{Infobox IPA

|above={{nowrap|Tenuis palatal uvular click}}

|ipa symbol=q͡ǂ   q͡𝼋

|ipa symbol2=𐞥ǂ   𐞥𝼋

}}

{{main|Palatal click}}

The voiceless or more precisely tenuis palatal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis palatal click with a velar rear articulation is {{angbr IPA|k͡ǂ}} or {{angbr IPA|k͜ǂ}}, commonly abbreviated to {{angbr IPA|kǂ}}, {{angbr IPA|ᵏǂ}} or simply {{angbr IPA|ǂ}}. Linguists who prefer the old IPA letters use the analogous Beach convention{{cite book|first=Douglas Martyn|last=Beach|year=1938|title=The phonetics of the Hottentot language|publisher=W. Heffer & Sons|location=London}} of {{angbr IPA|k͡𝼋}} or {{angbr IPA|k͜𝼋}}, abbreviated {{angbr IPA|k𝼋}}, {{angbr IPA|ᵏ𝼋}} or just {{angbr IPA|𝼋}}. For a click with a uvular rear articulation, the equivalents are {{angbr IPA|q͡ǂ, q͜ǂ, qǂ, 𐞥ǂ}} and {{angbr IPA|q͡𝼋, q͜𝼋, q𝼋, 𐞥𝼋}}.

Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. {{angbr IPA|ǂk}} or {{angbr IPA|ǂᵏ}}; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WD8aAQAAIAAJ |title=Afrika und Übersee |date=2005 |publisher=D. Reimer |pages=93–94 |language=en}}